Holocene book review: Reflexive Cartography: A New Perspective in Mapping
TL;DR: The most recent edition of the Modern Cartography series, Reflexive Cartography as mentioned in this paper, was published in 2015 and is based on a monograph written in Italian and translated into English.
Abstract: Elsevier’s Modern Cartography Series, edited by Professor DR Fraser Taylor, is a long-running occasional series that currently comprises seven volumes, the first published in 1991. With a hiatus since 2006, Elsevier has injected some new vigour with a title planned for 2017 and this volume, Reflexive Cartography, published in 2015. The book is firmly rooted in cartographic theory and is largely drafted in the style of a monograph. It is not a science-led book, but rather a philosophical approach to understanding the historical development of the subject, its current status and, more particularly, how it can develop in the future. It is worth stating early on that the manuscript was originally written in Italian, utilises extensive Italian academic literature and has been translated into English. The translation is generally good, but stylistically is extremely dense using a technical, verbose, approach and, in the tradition of monographs, overly long! I cannot help but feel that the core message and supporting argument could have been achieved in fewer than 100 pages. The following gives readers a sense of the difficulty in understanding the language (for those not familiar with this style):
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TL;DR: This research develops visual methods and tools to support a wide array of geospatial data applications that enable distributed geovisualization across software components, devices, people, and places.
Abstract: Geovisualization is both a process for leveraging the data resources to meet scientific and societal needs and a research field that develops visual methods and tools to support a wide array of geospatial data applications. While researchers have made substantial advances in geovisualization over the past decade, many challenges remain. To support real-world knowledge construction and decision making, some of the most important challenges involve distributed geovisualization - that is, enabling geovisualization across software components, devices, people, and places.
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...This strand has since been invigorated by computer scientists, as visualisation and data manipulation have increased in importance, something MacEachren et al. (2004) envisage as part of the wider remit of geovisualisation....
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...When representing landscape more generally, then the subject reduces to one of communication or more specifically geovisualisation (Smith et al., 2013)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the main component of video maps is a video stream that is areally georeferenced to a spatial reference system in the same way rectified raster orthoimages are geore ferenced.
Abstract: This article introduces interactive video maps for the web. The main component of video maps is a video stream that is areally georeferenced to a spatial reference system in the same way rectified raster orthoimages are georeferenced. The areal georeference allows for interactivity that goes beyond the play, pause, and stop functionality of video player software. We highlight two types of functionality, allowing the user to (1) combine the video stream layer with other raster and vector map layers and (2) adjust the projection of the map in real time. We exemplify video maps by A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2, an interactive video map that visualizes the results of a high-resolution NASA computer model of global atmospheric carbon dioxide distribution. The map shows how carbon dioxide travels around the globe over the course of one year. We use a combination of WebGL, a programming interface to the hardware-accelerated graphics pipeline, and HTML5 video for adding an areally georeferenced video ...
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TL;DR: A treatment of some techniques that can be used to enhance satellite imagery and the visualization of the topography to improve landform identification as part of geomorphological mapping is provided in this article.
Abstract: Geovisualization involves the depiction of spatial data in an attempt to facilitate the interpretation of observational and simulated datasets through which Earth's surface and solid Earth processes may be understood. Numerous techniques can be applied to imagery, digital elevation models, and other geographic information system data layers to explore for patterns and depict landscape characteristics. Given the rapid proliferation of remotely sensed data and high-resolution digital elevation models, the focus is on the visualization of satellite imagery and terrain morphology, where manual human interpretation plays a fundamental role in the study of geomorphic processes and the mapping of landforms. A treatment of some techniques is provided that can be used to enhance satellite imagery and the visualization of the topography to improve landform identification as part of geomorphological mapping. Visual interaction with spatial data is an important part of exploring and understanding geomorphological datasets, and a variety of methods exist ranging across simple overlay, panning and zooming, 2.5D, 3D, and temporal analyses. Specific visualization outputs are also covered that focus on static and interactive methods of dissemination. Geomorphological mapping legends and the cartographic principles for map design are discussed, followed by details of dynamic web-based mapping systems that allow for greater immersive use by end users and the effective dissemination of data.
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...When representing landscape more generally, then the subject reduces to one of communication or more specifically geovisualisation (Smith et al., 2013)....
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